Back معركة بوردو Arabic Битка при Бордо Bulgarian Batalla de la Garona Catalan Batalo de la Rivero Garono Esperanto Batalla del Garona Spanish Bataille de Bordeaux (732) French Battaglia della Garonna Italian Bitwa nad rzeką Garonna (732) Polish Bătălia de pe râul Garonne Romanian Битва на реке Гаронне Russian
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 Umayyad Caliphate |
 Duchy of Aquitaine | ||||||||
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Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi |
Odo the Great | ||||||||
  Battle of Bordeaux Location within France | |||||||||
The Battle of the River Garonne, also known as the Battle of Bordeaux,[1] was fought in 732 between an Umayyad army led by Abdul Rahman Al-Ghafiqi, governor of Al-Andalus, and Aquitanian forces led by Duke Odo of Aquitaine.
- ^ Matthew Bennett The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient & Medieval Warfare 1579581161 1998 p319 "In 732 a large army of (70,000-80,000) men led by Abd ar-Rahman defeated the Aquitainians under Duke Eudo at the Battle of Bordeaux"